Improved compound for bating hides and skins



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L. F. ROBERTSON, OF .MORRISANIA, NEW'IYORIK.

Letters Patent No. 87,202, dated February 23,1869. I

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters.Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, L. F. ROBERTSON, of Mom'sania,

ill the county of Westehester, State of New York, have invented anew andimproved Compound for Batin Hides and Skins; and-I do hereby declare thefollowand also sheep and goat-skins, said compoundbeing made of water,molasses, sawdust, and urine, or, instead of sawdust, blood may be used.

These ingredients are mixed together, in about the followingproportions:

Water, two hundred gallons ;'molasses, one gallon; sawdust, one and ahalf bushel filtered urine, two and a halt gallons. Or,'instead of this,water, two hundred gallons; molasses, one gallon; blood, one gallon;filtered urine, two and ahalf gallons.

These proportions will, however, undergo slight modifications, accordingto the condition of the water, and of the season; and for various kindsof hidesand skins the proportions must be increased or diminished.-

My hating-compound works fully asgood as the hates, pures, or drenches,which are at present in general use, and which are made of flour, orbran, or of dung of chickens, pigeons, or dogs, or diluted muriaticacid.

The peculiar advantages of my hating-compound, when compared with thebates previously used, may be enumerated as follows:

. First, by the'application of my compound, any common workman isenabled to perform the hating-process, without danger of injuring orspoiling the stock, which often -happens by the old hating-process, evenif an experienced workman has charge of the labor.

Second, the costof my process is only about onetenth of that of the oldprocess.

Third, my process is not subjected to the influence of thunder-storms,whereby the stock subjected to the old hating-process is many timesdamaged or spoiled.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letf ters Patent, is-

A compound for hating hides-and skins, made of 1 urine, molasses,sawdust, and water, mixed together, substantially in the manner hereinseti'orth.

Also, a compound for hating hides and skins, made of urine, molasses,blood, and water, mixed together, substantially in the manner hereinspecified.

This specification signed by me, this 28th day of December, 1868.

. L. I". ROBERTSON. Witnesses:

W. HAUFF,

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